Who is the ChiefHomeOfficer?

YOU are - or anyone who works from home. Whether you're a full-time 1099er, a corporate teleworking W-2er, a part-time eBayer, or any head-of-household handling family, finances and affairs from a corner desk - and in search of a little balance in the home office, then ChiefHomeOfficer's your destination.
Think of Chief Home Officer.com as LifeHacker meets the home office - no matter what home office you run. Entrepreneurs will discover SOHO 2.0 business insight. Teleworkers will learn leading-edge remote work strategies. will spot tips, tales and links on balance. And those considering making the leap into home officing will unearth equal parts reality and validation. Explore. Learn. Return.

The SOHO Sherpa…

ChiefHomeOfficer is your SOHO Sherpa - a guide to all the things that make the Small Or Home Office (SOHO) work. Since 1993, we've chronicled the work-at-home adventure. Today, the site offers honest and occasionally humorous insights, tips, tech/product reviews, and commentary that cut through the "Make Millions From Home" promise and just lay down the real skinny on a lifestyle people can work and live with.

Want to learn more? If you work from home, want to, or are a corporate marketer hoping to talk to those who do, email jeff [at] chiefhomeofficer dot com.

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She was on the front lines of the emerging and eventually multi-billion dollar SOHO (small office / home office) movement — lamentably, long before most corporations even knew there was an emerging multi-billion dollar home office and telework movement that they could / should become leaders of.

She staged conferences — most notably, the SOHO Summit, and later a much smaller, yet equally compelling event for a dozen SOHO pioneers (yours truly included).

For the past six years, Terri has been reinventing herself — in the form of a doctorate whose 409-page dissertation was on the Business History on Entrepreneurialism, Branding, and Food Marketing. Yum!

Her tale is truly compelling when you consider where this home office advocate has gone with her career. With her new parchment in hand, Lonier plans to “embark on new adventures, both entrepreneurial and academic.”

Those adventures, for all entrepreneurs, begin anew on October 1. As Terri noted in her most recent ezine, it’s the start of the last quarter of 2009. It’s time for a review…

1. What’s worked best for you in 2009? Most solo companies follow an 80/20 rule — 80% of their revenue comes from 20% of their client base and/or 20% of their products or services. Have you determined what generates your best ROI? How can you enhance, extend, or leverage your success to date? This requires setting aside some thinking-with-pen-on-paper time. The process can reveal patterns and directions you didn’t notice (or act on) previously.

2. What consistently seems to slip off your To-Do list? Are there tasks or projects that keep hanging around on your To-Do list, but never seem to get done? If so, it’s time to jettison them, accepting that they don’t fit your needs or interests any more. Or, if you consider them still worthwhile, create an action plan to complete them. Having them linger only takes up mental energy every time you encounter them on your list. Assess them, decide yes or no, and free up the brain space!

3. What’s on your “for the fun of it” list? If you’ve been solely focused on business tasks during 2009, be sure you make time for at least one project that’s just for fun. Whether it takes only a few hours, or extends over several days, it’s important to replenish the creative well. October is a good month to do so, since the holidays quickly sneak up at the end of the year — and while they may mean time away from the office, they’re often not stress-free.

Make the most of every day — in your own way. Check out Terri ‘s work at WorkingSolo.com